Maigroup - You (2015)

Mai Leisz is a bassplayer and composer from the shadowland of the North: post-soviet country, Estonia, where she was born and raised. In 2010 she made the move to Sweden where she honed her craft as an electric bass player and composer. She started gaining wider exposure with her own jazz-fusion group MaiGroup as well as freelancing with different jazz bands and pop artists: Linnea Henriksson, Ebbot Lundberg, Petra Marklund, Carola, Norrbotten Big Band, New Places Orchestra, Brady Blade, Håkan Broström and Estonian legends Tõnis Mägi, Riho Sibul and Jaak Johanson.

Her tireless work ethic, melodic bass playing and versatility has raised her name among the world’s top musicians. Mai is hailed as a music chameleon, moving effortlessly from pop, folk and country to jazz and blues.

In June 2015 she had couple of days off touring and was busking in the old town Stockholm with a veteran singer-songwriter Doug Seegers, when one of her favorite musicians in the world, multi-instrumentalist Greg Leisz - on tour with Jackson Browne - happened to walk by. He was very moved by what he saw and heard, took note of Mai’s distinctive Kraftsman bass and informed bass player Bob Glaub, who was also on the tour. The next day Mai was invited to sit in with Jackson and his band at Stockholm Waterfront and thus began a whirl-wind adventure for a girl, who started her life on an island, in a village of 250 people and who now found herself relocating to Los Angeles, recording, writing and touring with a two-time member of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - David Crosby; performing with Jackson Browne, Joan Baez, David Foster and Seal among others.

She is soon to hit the road again with David Crosby and the Sky Trails Band, and readying material for MaiGroup’s third album. Due to be released in 2019, the release will be influenced by love and reflect a perspective of someone who has spent a life-time discovering not only the world, but herself.